The three leaders have agreed to strengthen the cooperation between our three countries in order to promote a trilateral partnership in different fields of common interest and to work together towards promoting peace, stability, security and prosperity in the Mediterranean and the wider region.
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Greek Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipras held an intergovernmental meeting with the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.
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The Ministers of Defense of Israel and Greece, Moshe Ya’alon and Panos Kammenos on Tuesday met at the Greek Pentagon, where they emphasized the importance of a bilateral strategic cooperation.
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Nikos Xydakis and Keith Morril discussed issues related to the EU institutions and cooperation amongst them and the need to maintain the unity of the European structure.
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Konstantinos Koutras responded to statements by Austrian Minister of the Interior, regarding Greece’s controls on its borders with Turkey.
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The Foreign Ministry has taken the necessary steps to issue visas with biometric data, in order to serve third-country (non-EU) nationals planning to visit Greece during the upcoming tourist season.
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After Istanbul, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will travel to Israel, in preparation for the Greek-Israeli High Level Cooperation Council, and to Cyprus, for the Greece-Cyprus-Israel trilateral Summit Meeting.
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Xydakis: “”In recent days, extremist conservative European circles have been attempting to target Greece, presenting it as the source of the refugee problem. In this context, they have taken the Greek coastguard to task for supposedly not “protecting” the maritime borders by intercepting refugee and migration flows by military means.”
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KOTZIAS: We have to combat the reasons behind the fleeing of refugees. In other words, for there to be peace in Syria. One of the big mistakes was the inadequate funding of the reception and accommodation spaces for the refugees in Lebanon and Jordan.
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The Alternate Foreign Minister for European Affairs, Nikos Xydakis, met at the Foreign Ministry today [Jan 22] with the Palestinian Ambassador to Greece, Marwan Emile Toubassi, and the Tunisian Ambassador to Greece, Tarek Saadi, following the Hellenic Parliament’s passing, on 22 December 2015, of its Resolution on recognition of the Palestinian state.
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